A CALL TO PRAYER.
September.—Prayer and Revival. Heading: Ezek. 37:1-14. '•Revival can only come by prayer—importunate. unceasing, believing prayer.” “Prayer la not a farce, but a force." "Prayer changes things." Prayer is still God's ordained method by which His blessing comes. Every revival since Pentecost began in a prayer meeting, and God is saying to us all afresh. “If ye ask ... I will do.” “What, then, is our duty? Most of all, it is to pray for a breath of the
Spirit of God upon the dry bones that they shall live. What we need is a revival with all the self-sacrifice and devotion of St. Francis of Assisi in it; all the fiery denunciation of sin of John Knox in it; all the zeal and enthusiasm of John Wesley in it; and all the winsome telling of the old, old story of Jesus and His love of D. L. Moody in it. ’ Prayer Topics: 1. (Quickening in our own lives. 2. Dominion-wide revival in W.C.T.U. 3. Our Field Workers. 4. District Conventions. a. The Coming; Poll.
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White Ribbon, Volume 37, Issue 433, 18 August 1931, Page 4
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